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We present a novel concept for pulse compression scheme applicable at RF, microwave and possibly to optical frequencies based on structured energy distribution in cavities supporting degenerate band-edge (DBE) modes. For such modes a…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-18 Venkata Ananth Tamma , Alexander Figotin , Filippo Capolino

X-ray polarization is a powerful tool for unveiling the anisotropic characteristics of high-energy celestial objects. We present a novel imaging reconstruction method designed for hard X-ray polarimeters employing a Si CMOS sensor and coded…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Tsubasa Tamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Taihei Watanabe , Toshiya Iwata , Tomoaki Kasuga , Atsushi Tanimoto , Satoshi Takashima , Masahiro Ichihashi , Hiromasa Suzuki , Aya Bamba

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is a key use case for sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems, where parametric channel estimation (PCE) plays a central role in enabling sensing, localization, and channel equalization in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Enrique T. R. Pinto , André L. F. de Almeida , Markku Juntti

Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (F-CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance for image segmentation in medical imaging. Recently, squeeze and excitation (SE) modules and variations thereof have been introduced to recalibrate feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Anne-Marie Rickmann , Abhijit Guha Roy , Ignacio Sarasua , Nassir Navab , Christian Wachinger

Image sensors are the backbone of many imaging technologies of great importance to modern sciences, being particularly relevant in biomedicine. An ideal image sensor should be usable through all the electromagnetic spectrum (large…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Juan Aguirre

For many applications of pulsed radiation, the time-history of the radiation intensity must be optimized to induce a desired time-history of conditions. This optimization is normally performed using multi-physics simulations of the system.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Damian C. Swift , George B. Zimmerman

End-to-end image and video compression using auto-encoders (AE) offers new appealing perspectives in terms of rate-distortion gains and applications. While most complex models are on par with the latest compression standard like VVC/H.266…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Franck Galpin , Muhammet Balcilar , Frédéric Lefebvre , Fabien Racapé , Pierre Hellier

This paper presents a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) based image compression framework via scalable auto-encoder (SAE). Specifically, our SAE based deep image codec consists of hierarchical coding layers, each of which is an…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Chuanmin Jia , Zhaoyi Liu , Yao Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

A method is presented for the determination of complex-valued compression and shear elastic moduli of polymers for ultrasound applications. The resulting values, which are scarcely reported in the literature, are found with uncertainties…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-30 William N. Bodé , Fabian Lickert , Per Augustsson , Henrik Bruus

Fourier imaging is an indirect imaging method which records the diffraction pattern of the object scene coherently in the focal plane of the imaging system and reconstructs the image using computational resources. The spatial resolution,…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-05 Hui Yuan , Alvydas Lisauskas , Mark D. Thomson , Hartmut G. Roskos

With exponential growth in the use of digital image data, the need for efficient transmission methods has become imperative. Traditional image compression techniques often sacrifice image fidelity for reduced file sizes, challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Aryan Kashyap Naveen , Sunil Thunga , Anuhya Murki , Mahati A Kalale , Shriya Anil

This paper describes performance bounds for compressed sensing (CS) where the underlying sparse or compressible (sparsely approximable) signal is a vector of nonnegative intensities whose measurements are corrupted by Poisson noise. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Maxim Raginsky , Rebecca M. Willett , Zachary T. Harmany , Roummel F. Marcia

In this paper, we will present p roposed enhance process of image compression by using RLE algorithm. This proposed yield to decrease the size of compressing image, but the original method used primarily for compressing a binary images…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Ali H. Husseen Al-nuaimi , Shyamaa Shakir Al-juboori , R. J. Mohammed

Arrays of ultrasonic sensors are capable of 3D imaging in air and an affordable supplement to other sensing modalities, such as radar, lidar, and camera, i.e. in heterogeneous sensing systems. However, manufacturing tolerances of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Raphael Müller , Gianni Allevato , Matthias Rutsch , Christoph Haugwitz , Tianyi Liu , Mario Kupnik , Marius Pesavento

Multispectral imaging has been utilized in many fields, but the cost of capturing and storing image data is still high. Single-sensor cameras with multispectral filter arrays can reduce the cost of capturing images at the expense of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-12 Kazuma Shinoda , Madoka Hasegawa , Masahiro Yamaguchi , Antonio Ortega

Multiplexers based on the modulation of superconducting quantum interference devices are now regularly used in multi-kilopixel arrays of superconducting detectors for astrophysics, cosmology, and materials analysis. Over the next decade,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-02 K. D. Irwin , H. M. Cho , W. B. Doriese , J. W. Fowler , G. C. Hilton , M. D. Niemack , C. D. Reintsema , D. R. Schmidt , J. N. Ullom , L. R. Vale

Proposals to reach the next generation of laser intensities through Raman or Brillouin backscattering have centered on optical frequencies. Higher frequencies are beyond the range of such methods mainly due to the wave damping that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 Yuan Shi , Hong Qin , Nathaniel J. Fisch

We consider the remote vector source coding problem in which a vector Gaussian source is to be estimated from noisy linear measurements. For this problem, we derive the performance of the compress-and-estimate (CE) coding scheme and compare…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Ruiyang Song , Stefano Rini , Alon Kipnis , Andrea Goldsmith

A method for ECG compression, by imaging the record as a 2D array and implementing a transform lossy compression strategy, is advanced. The particularity of the proposed transformation consists in applying a Discrete Wavelet Transform along…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-12 Johan Chagnon , Laura Rebollo-Neira

Compressing electron pulses is important in many applications of electron beam systems. In this study, we propose to use optical beat notes to compress electron pulses. The beat frequency is chosen to match the initial electron pulse…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Zhexin Zhao , Kenneth J. Leedle , Dylan S. Black , Olav Solgaard , Robert L. Byer , Shanhui Fan